Agate Pass Net Pen

Employees of the Suquamish Tribe put 265,000 coho salmon in a net pen in Agate Passage on Monday.

Coho salmon are released by a hose into the net pens in Agate Passage on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe began an effort on Monday to locate 265,000 fish into the net pen for future fishing by tribal and sport fishers. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Lawrence Sigo holds a small salmon in his hands. The coho salmon were transferred from a truck to a holding tank on a barge at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe took the fish from the Gorst Creek rearing facility to restock their fish pens in Agate Passage. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Al Thurlow, left, and Ron Harrell guide a barge into the dock at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport to transfer a truckload of coho salmon to the net pens in Agate Passage. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Bill Alexander aims a hose into the holding tank as salmon are pumped from a truck on the dock and onto the barge at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport on Monday. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Al Thurlow zips up the net pen in Agate Passage after a load of salmon were pumped into it from a barge on Monday. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Fish are pumped through the hose held by Ron Harrell, left, as Lawrence Sigo and Bill Alexander, right, fill the holding tank aboard the barge at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport on Monday. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Tom Wortman, with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, runs the pump as fish are transferred from the Gorst Creek rearing ponds to a truck on Monday. An estimated 265,000 fish were being transferred from the Gorst facility to the Suquamish Tribe’s net pens in Agate Passage. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Yearling salmon move through a fish pump as they are transferred from the Gorst Creek rearing facility to a truck as they head to the Suquamish net pens in Agate Passage on Monday. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)

Ron Harrell throws a rope to Lawrence Sigo as a barge carrying coho salmon docks at Kiana Lodge in Suquamish on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe used the barge to restock their fish pens in Agate Passage. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN)